previously
Definition:
1. At an earlier time or formerly.
Use 'previously' in a sentence:
- 1. She had rented the flat from the council some fourteen months previously.
- 2. I haven't met him previously.
- 3. By 2005 he wants half of all new houses to be built on previously developed land: so-called brownfield sites.
- 4. The deviation from the previously accepted agreement cannot be forgiven.
- 5. The eight-mile road is at least 500 years older than any previously discovered road.
- 6. Women's sports are breaking down the barriers in previously male-dominated domains.
- 7. Previously our mountain area [ region] is poor and impoverised.
- 8. The evidence given in court was inconsistent with what he had previously told them.
- 9. Only the European Space Agency and the US have previously sent probes there.
- 10. The next afternoon Sara spoke to a few of her teammates, two of which I had previously dated.
- 11. He had first entered the House 12 years previously.
- 12. The company had previously announced the planned closures, but had not said which locations would be affected.
- 13. The size of the shrubs has increased and shrub cover has spread to what was previously shrub-free tundra.
- 14. Previously she had very little time to work in her own garden.
- 15. Six months previously he had quitted his job.
- 16. This means that we have to set all the previously mentioned properties.
- 17. This country has previously witnessed two great struggles to achieve a truly multicultural democracy.
- 18. These black models are moving in on what was previously white territory: the lucrative cosmetic contracts.
- 19. Previously, scientists noticed pollutants arriving in the Arctic with the wind.
- 20. Previously our mountain area [region] is poor and impoverised.
- 21. Other researchers had previously modified the bacterium to produce alcohol from organic waste.
- 22. She previously worked as a teacher.
- 23. The drug is to be reclassified after trials showed it to be more harmful than previously thought.
- 24. He certainly got a good break when he began to work in that firm; yet he deserved it because previously he had got a series of bad breaks.
- 25. Spassky had never previously lost to his antagonist.
- 26. It may be less damaging than previously believed.
- 27. The two fighters had previously boxed a 12-round match.
- 28. Archaeologist Bill Kelso and his team discovered the church in a previously unexplored area of the fort in Jamestown.
- 29. We print a selection of previously unseen photos from the Spanish rider's early years.
- 30. The changed outlook entails higher economic growth than was previously assumed.
- 31. He may suddenly take a dislike to foods that he's previously enjoyed.
- 32. The document was previously circulated in New York at the United Nations.
- 33. His statement ran athwart what was previously said.
- 34. Reviews are distilled from articles previously published in the main column.
- 35. The contract was awarded to a previously unknown company.
- 36. A previously unknown extremist group has said it carried out Friday's bomb attack.
- 37. Marine life was discovered at depths previously thought to be azoic.
- 38. I should like to add a corrective to what I have written previously.
- 39. Radiation may damage cells in a way that was previously unforeseen.
- 40. Guyana's railways were previously owned by private companies.
- 41. Some drugs are being used on a much larger scale than previously.
- 42. Indium, for example, had previously been assigned an atomic mass between those of arsenic and selenium.
- 43. Many previously separate groups are now operating under the umbrella of a single authority.
- 44. Thanks to the automobile, Americans soon had a freedom of movement previously unknown.
- 45. The scientist confirmed the snake was a previously unknown species after conducting a genetic analysis of tissue samples.
- 46. The building had previously been used as a hotel.